Hebrew Legal Translation Services in Dubai

Hebrew is a comparatively new working language in Dubai’s legal translation market, and the demand is overwhelmingly commercial. Since trade and investment ties opened up, Israeli companies have incorporated in the free zones, signed distribution and technology agreements with UAE counterparties, and opened bank and escrow arrangements here. Each of those steps produces Hebrew-language corporate records that a UAE licensing authority, bank or court will only work from in certified Arabic, stamped by a translator accredited with the UAE Ministry of Justice.

Hebrew and Arabic are both right-to-left Semitic languages, which makes the pair look deceptively easy. In practice the legal vocabularies come from entirely separate systems, and a translation that borrows a familiar-looking Arabic root for an Israeli statutory term can misdescribe a company’s structure or a contract’s remedy.

• Company registration records from the Israeli Registrar of Companies — incorporation certificates, company extracts and shareholder registers.
• Articles of association and board and shareholder resolutions.
• Commercial contracts — distribution, agency, supply, technology licensing and joint-venture agreements, with their annexes.
• Powers of attorney and notarial certifications for use before UAE authorities.
• Civil status certificates — birth, marriage and death records, and identity documents.
• Court documents — judgments, pleadings and enforcement papers.
• Financial statements, audit reports and bank documentation supporting licensing and banking files.
• Academic records — degree certificates and transcripts for equivalency.

The Department of Economy and Tourism and free-zone authorities such as DMCC, DIFC-adjacent entities and JAFZA, UAE courts and arbitration centres, banks and compliance departments, notary publics, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and universities and equivalency bodies.

• Shared script family, separate legal systems. Hebrew legal terms come from Israeli statute and Hebrew and Arabic share a Semitic root system, which invites false cognates. A term is translated by what it does in Israeli law, not by the Arabic word that resembles it.
• Company identifiers. Israeli companies are identified by a registrar number, and the corporate suffix (בעמ, equivalent to Ltd) is part of the registered name. We reproduce the number and the registered English name where the extract carries one, so the Arabic version matches the record a licensing officer can verify.
• Two right-to-left languages, one layout problem. Both scripts run right to left, but embedded Latin text, figures, clause numbering and tables behave differently. We rebuild the layout so numbering, cross-references and schedules stay in the right order rather than inverting inside the Arabic text.
• Dates. Israeli documents may carry a Hebrew calendar date, a Gregorian date, or both. We carry over what is stated and give the Gregorian equivalent so there is no ambiguity for the receiving officer.
• Names and transliteration. Hebrew names transliterate into Latin script in several accepted ways. We follow the passport spelling and keep the Hebrew original visible, so the translation, the passport and the licence describe one identifiable party.
• Hebrew to English as well as Arabic. Free-zone and banking files are frequently prepared in English while the court-facing version is Arabic. We produce both from the same source so the two never drift apart.

1. Send the document. A clear scan or photo of every page, including stamps and anything printed on the reverse, plus the passport page so names match.
2. We confirm scope, price and date — usually within one working hour. The quote we give is the price you pay.
3. Translation by an accredited legal translator who works in this language pair, not a generalist.
4. Review and certification. Names, numbers, dates and seals are checked against the source before the stamp is applied.
5. Delivery as a certified PDF and, where you need it, a stamped hard copy collected from our Creek Tower office or couriered.